23/52 I know what you have come for--to tell me that you bear me no malice. You are a fine fellow, Walsham, and deserve all your good fortune, just as I deserve what has befallen me. I think, if it had not been for the squire taking me up, I should never have come to this, but might have grown up a decent fellow. I thought I was going to be a great man, and this is what has come of it." "I have come partly, as you suppose, to tell you that I bear you no malice, Richard Horton. |